Fables of the Law: Fairy Tales in a Legal Context

465 Pages·2016·6.953 MB·English

by  Daniela Carpi (editor), Marett Leiboff (editor)

Fables of the Law
Law & Literature
Edited by
Daniela Carpi and Klaus Stierstorfer
Volume 13
Fables of the Law
Fairy Tales in a Legal Context
Edited by
Daniela Carpi and Marett Leiboff
ISBN 978-3-11-049472-3
e-ISBN (PDF) 978-3-11-049668-0
e-ISBN (EPUB) 978-3-11-049350-4
ISSN 2191-8457
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Table of Contents
Introduction
Daniela Carpi
Fables of the Law, a Literary Perspective 3
Marett Leiboff
Fabulous Law: Legal Fables 33
Part I: Fabulising Law
Luis Gómez Romero
The Wondrous (Baroque) Gender Revolution, or the Rise and Fall of the
Empire of Fairies 49
Cristina Costantini
The Haunting Memory of Law: Mystic Fables, Uncanny Presences
and Normative Spectrality 83
Pier Giuseppe Monateri
Political Sublime: Heterodoxyand Jurisdiction at the Origin
of Modernity 95
Riccardo Baldissone
Mystical Bodies and Bodies of Law: On Juridical Theology and the
(Re)Foundations of the West 111
Part II: Contemporary Fables
Matteo Nicolini
Narrators of Fables or Framers of the Constitution? The Acallam na Senórach
Beyond Time, Place, and Law 137
VI TableofContents
Doris Pichler
Playing with Conventions and Traditions: The Modern Legal Fairy
Tale 169
Marett Leiboff
The Good Old Rule, the Catspaw and a Two-Headed Baby 187
Giuseppe Rossi and Paola Carbone
Ethics and Law at Play on the Football Pitch 209
Valentina Adami
Earth Jurisprudenceand the Myth of Gaia 243
Part III: Fables of Family
Alessandra Cordiano
Archetypes and Family Models 259
Anna Enrichetta Soccio
Divorce and the Failure of Law in Dickens’s Hard Times 275
Maria Caterina Baruffi
Bluebeard and the Polygamous Family 283
Part IV: Law, Myth and Magic
Daniela Carpi
Fables of the Holocaust: Hansel and Gretel 309
William P. MacNeil
Let the Right Law In: True Blood, the Twilight Saga and The Passage as Lex
Vampirica 331
Sara Soncini
Tales of Terror: The Pillowman and the Violence of the Virtual 355
Filippo Sgubbi
The Fable of the Bees in Contemporary Penal Law 373
TableofContents VII
Roxanne Barbara Doerr
Summons, Prophecies, Possession and Madness: Intersections of Law and
Magic in Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell 379
Giovanna Ligugnana
An Invented Executive: The Ministry of Magic in Harry Potter 419
Raffaele Cutolo
Law and Magic: King Arthur and the Making of a Myth 435
Contributors 445
Subject index 451

Introduction